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Free Press matures as self-censor, editor says
The Los Angeles Free Press has now reached a stage of maturity in which it can refuse to print sex-oriented advertisements, Editor Art Kunkin said yesterday.
Kunkin spoke at an informal discussion on censorship sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness in the Student Activities Center.
The type of advertisements which can be refused publicity, Kunkin said, are those submitted by “sexual deviants who are basically crummy people who don’t care about hurting others.”
“Actually, the idea of people meeting others through the unclassified ads began as a groovy idea,” he said. ”The paper was just like Barney’s Beanery. However, as the Free Press gained notoriety, all the deviates in Los Angeles caught on and placed ads.”
Kunkin said he drew the line in the interest of good taste when he refused to publish an ad for an electric vibrator shaped “unmistakably like a penis.”
But books and films do not fall into the same category.
“I find it difficult to turn down any ad relating to a book or film. These ads go along with the purpose of the Free Press, while vibrators do not,” he said.
Though some ads are being denied publicity, Kunkin said he would not compromise on editorials.
“I see nothing obscene about nude bodies and wouldn’t hesitate to publish a photograph of police busting a nudist colony even if it showed pubic hair or male organs,” he said.
Kunkin said his decision to refuse some ads has cost him money, as has his fight against censorship. At present, he is involved in a $5,000 law suit defending Lenore Kandel’s “Love Book.”
The editor said he feels elimination of all censorship in the United States would change the social and political orientation of its citizens.
“The liberal’s dream would be for all sides to be presented to all the people, allowing them to then make rational decisions,” he said.
“This is not just a question of censorship of written or film material, but of the subtle censorships applied by parents on their children. The generation gap is now so large that social restraints are beginning to break down.”
Kunkin said, however, that the solution to the need for social change does not lie in increased militancy on the part of radical liberal elements.
“There is now a vast appreciation of the power of negativity, but this should be balanced by constructive practical ideas. Provocation and street theater are good, but these don’t supply reasonable answers,” he said.
Kunkin said he was ready to go to the Democratic convention if something worthwhile had developed, but didn’t because he knew what was going to happen.
“I am pleased at being at the center of where the action is,” he concluded, “but deep in my heart I really know that the New Left movement is very weak, because the instruments of control and power are still in the hands of the establishment.”
VOL LX
University of Southern California
DAILY # TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1968
NO. 3
ART KUNKIN
£iology faculty offers students voice in plans
By ROGER SMITH Assistant city editor Biology majors will meet soon in what will apparently be a significant breakthrough in student-faculty relations.
The majors will meet to decide what to do about department faculty resolution inviting them to help “inaugurate student participation in academic affairs and planning.”
The resolution stated that the participation could include voting representation at faculty meetings and
committees of the department.
Dr. Arnold Dunn, associate professor of biology, said the resolution was adopted at the end of last year. The 200 majors in the department will be notified of a meeting to discuss the resolution after a few weeks, he said.
Dunn said the students had exerted no pressure whatsoever on the faculty for such a resolution.
“The idea came at the Danforth Foundation conferences at Idyllwild,” he said. “We felt there was real validity
TYD will not endorse national candidates
The executive board of the Trojan Young Democrats voted yesterday not to endorse any candidates for national or local office. Instead, seven separate committees will be formed within TYD.
Students for Humphrey will be led by Patty Friend, former TYD corresponding secretary.
At their final meeting tomorrow at noon in Von Kleinsmid Center 100, the Students for Kennedy Committee will be changed to the Kennedy Action Corpos with Keith Keener continuing as chairman. The goals of this group will be to aid the children farm workers, make minority ^Hldren aware of higher education ^^portunities. and make jobs available to all. Keener said.
“There is a crusade that has to be
SQUIRES SET BRIEFINGS
Squires, the sophomores men's service club, will hold a briefing for prospective members at 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Founders Hall 102.
The briefing will cover the membership test to be given on Tuesday. The club is open to sophomores only.
started and there are ideals that have to be worked out,” Joel Rosenzweig, TYD president and a former Kennedy campaigner, said.
Youth for McCarthy continues under Steve Beidner, TYD treasurer. The group will collect signatures to place McCarthy’s name on the California ballot until Sept. 20. They will then conduct a although
write-ins on the ballots are not counted.
Beidner will also head students for Alan Cranston, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. The organizational meeting for this committee will be held Friday at noon in Von Kleinsmid Center 100.
In addition, Youth for Congressman George E. Brown, Jr., Youth for Congressman Charles H. Wilson, and Young Citizens for Assemblyman Jesse Unruh committees are being planned.
Dr. Donald A. Reed, former TYD vice president, moved that the executive board endorse Vice President Hubert Humphrey, saying, “Anyone in this country not doing anything to prevent the election of Nixon is insane.”
However, the motion was rejected and Reed was declared out of order.
It was suggested that the TYD set up one table in front of the Student Union with room enough for literature from all the organizations. However, the proposal was turned down.
to some student complaints and ideas, and that the students had the maturity to handle the responsibility.”
Should the students organize and take advantage of the resolution, Dunn said, biology would be the first major department at the university to have active student participation in department planning and activities.
Dean Neil Warren, former dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, was delighted with the resolution last year, Dunn said.
The student participation is only part of a “humanizing” effort brought to the department by its new head, Dr. Bernard C. Abbott.
“I’ll forever be a student,” he said. “It is my belief that the person who makes a commitment like a major should have a stake in the department.”
Dr. Abbott, 47, will also direct the Hancock Foundation. He hopes the resources of the foundation can be used by students as well.
“We have fantastic potential here,” he said.
McCarthy move NEARS FINISH
Campus volunteers who have been circulating petitions to place the name of Eugene McCarthy on the California presidential ballot will end their drive tomorrow.
Friday is the deadline for filing the petitions with election officials around the state.
Clifford Neill, sophomore in philosophy and spokesman for the volunteers, said 180 signatures were collected on campus last week and over 300 on Monday.
The petitions will be taken to McCarthy campaign headquarters for validating and addition of precinct numbers, he said.
Approximately 330,000 valid signatures will be required to place McCarthy's name on the ballot, Neill said.
"Signers of the petition do not in any way affiliate themselves with McCarthy," he said. "The petition is only to place his name on the ballot."
ROBERT P. MYERS, JR.
TEPs reinstated by dean of men
Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, suspended last spring by the Student Behavior Committee for hazing, has been reinstated by Dean of Men Daniel Nowak.
All members of the fraternity at the time of suspension are disaffiliated with the new TEPs under the conditions of the reinstatement, said Pat Ryan, Inter-Fraternity Council advisor.
“After the suspension by the Behavior Committee, members of the fraternity’s alumni were invited to meet with university officials to work out a plan under which the fraternity could be readmitted to good standing,” Ryan said.
“After extensive talks and correspondence during the summer, it was felt the fraternity had submitted an appropriate plan,” he said. “Dean Nowak made the reinstatement in late August in the absence of the Behavior Committee.”
The plan includes many guidelines, Ryan said.
“The most important ones are the complete turnover in membership and the employment of alumni and graduate advisors to live in the house.”
Ed Lewis, a first-year law student and former president of the house, will be the alumni advisor. Lee Albert will be the graduate advisor.
Ryan said that the fraternity is conducting rush and that 12 men have pledged.
“They will be able to pledge throughout the semester,” he said. I
The fraternity was placed on probation last year by the IFC Judicial for hazing. The hazing incidents included noise and obscene language, exhibitionism and other degrading acts in various rooms of the house, witnesses said.
The fraternity appealed the decision to the Student Behavior Committee, which issued the suspension.
HelpVietnamese help themselves, speaker advises
The way to get out of Vietnam is to help the Vietnamese learn to handle thier own problems, including the long standing friction between the Montagnards and the lowland Vietnamese, a foreign service officer said yesterday.
“Pacification doesn’t come out of gun barrels,” Robert P. Myers, Jr., told a Student Awareness Forum in the Student Activities Center.
Myers was responsible for the planning and implementation of a minority program in Vietnam last year. One of his major tasks was the enforcement of a bill of rights granted by the Thieu government to ethnic minorities.
“The Thieu government took a big step when it granted the Montagnards’ land rights and allowed them to use their own nontonal language in primary instruction,” he said.
“After all, they were admitting that their country wasn’t entirely Vietnamese.
“We,re still trying to learn to live up to our Bill of Rights. We shouldn’t expect more of the Vietnamese than we would of ourselves. A double standard won’t work.”
The American attempt to obtain recognition of minority rights is related to an increase of the tensions between the two groups. American Special Forces units previously used Montagnard strikers to hunt out Viet Cong, a source of racial tension that culminated in Montagnard rebellions in 1958,1964, and 1965.
“The government now knows it can’t win the war without the Montagnards,” said Myers, “so it was willing to reverse the oppresionist policies started by the Diem regime.”
“Asia doesn’t understand the time-phase goals beloved of the Harvard Business School,” Myers said. “We have to learn from them as well, but Washington and the military don’t always understand this. You can’t pacify an area without some military security, but military effort does shackle community development. The advisors try to alleviate this.”
Myers believes that one of the main American goals should be the stabilization of the country until the people can develop their own democratic institutions. He feels a regime must be formed that can fight its own corruption and be willing to repatriate members of the V iet Cong.
“As far as the development of our own type of democracy is concerned,” he said, “the Vietnamese are beginning to act like politicans. They make promises to win an election or support and then find that they have to keep them to stay there. I think that’s encouraging.”
Liquor request hearing
A public hearing on the USC Faculty Center liquor license application will be held Sept. 23.
Last April 2, the Faculty Center filed an application for a liquor license at the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department. The application prompted several protests, one of which was submitted by Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn.
The hearing will be held at the Department of Administrative procedures at 9 a.m. Monday and is open to the public.
Social action leader pledges to help minorities
By BILL DICKE City editor
Dr. William Williams leaned back and hooked his leg over the desk chair in the room of the little brown building which is the Center for Social Action.
“The jury is still out on the administration,” he said. “I have received a great deal of support from the administration, I have received a great deal of support from my department and the faculty has voiced a great deal of support.
“The problem is, the administration has appeal to the alumni, the Board of Trustees and other conservative groups for money.”
Dr. Williams, the director of the recently-formed center, was discussing its place in the university.
He is a soft-spoken man with a friendly smile, who looked tall sitting in the small office. His tie was tugged loose and slid around under an open vest.
“We are trying to get things going so that we can speak to the crisis at the
•versity, which has tc do with w’hether or not the university is going to be ■vant to the minority community,” he said.
“We are surrounded by ghetto and have a responsibility.’
He said that the university needs some kind of special organization to show that it is concerned w ith minority problems. The Center for Social Action is that group, he believes.
Its programs include:
Compiling information on university resources and programs relevant to the minority communities.
Developing scholarships and grants for disadvantaged minority students. Providing special guidance and counseling for disadvantaged minority students. Developing special programs relevant to minority communities.
Asked what programs the university had in the community before the center,
Dr. Williams said, “I’m not really sure, but I don’t think it was very much. There were a lot of ad hoc programs, but I don’t think they were as relevant as they should have been.
“If you’re really going to reach out, you’ve got to do it in specific ways. You’ve got to do something about changing the complexion of the campus. You’ve got to do something about getting more black and brown professors. You’ve got to include the community in the campus.”
Dr. Williams is currently trying to get a plan approved for tuition remission for minority students.
A duplicate services program for minority students being planned would set up a different set of criteria for admission, guidance and scholarship grants.
“They (minority students) can’t be treated in the traditional manner,” he said. Is the student body ready to support the center? “No,” he said, “I don’t think the student body is sophisticated enough to do any radical things.
“The student body is concerned with the dorm hours and is still hung up on fraternities and sororities. For the most part it is not committed to the urban crisis.
“I am confident that he is ready to place the urban crisis high on his list of priorities. We’ve had some good talks.
“One of his problems is the student body. He wants to keep its support even though they may not be committed to the same things he is. His problem is to satisfy his constituency.”
The center is sponsored by the School of Public Administration and the university at large. Its staff consists of students who work part-time.
Dr. Williams sat up behind the desk and said with a grin, “This is the start of it, but everything depends upon the president’s approval.”
“Students here don’t feel the sense of urgency that is felt on other campuses, or that is felt especially by minorities.”
He feels that the student body is not ready to do such things as making specific recommendations to the administration in terms of the urban crisis.
He thinks there is intellectual concern, but not an emotional concern on the campus.
Some students, faculty members and administrators are afraid of rapid changes, he said. “There is a great fear of admitting 50 or 60 black students at one time,” he claimed. “They are afraid of admitting droves of them.
“Of course this is just part of the American scene and USC reflects the country’s problems because of where it recruits its students.”
Dr. Williams feels that Bill Mauk, the ASSC president, is ready to implement his concern over the urban crisis.

Free Press matures as self-censor, editor says
The Los Angeles Free Press has now reached a stage of maturity in which it can refuse to print sex-oriented advertisements, Editor Art Kunkin said yesterday.
Kunkin spoke at an informal discussion on censorship sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness in the Student Activities Center.
The type of advertisements which can be refused publicity, Kunkin said, are those submitted by “sexual deviants who are basically crummy people who don’t care about hurting others.”
“Actually, the idea of people meeting others through the unclassified ads began as a groovy idea,” he said. ”The paper was just like Barney’s Beanery. However, as the Free Press gained notoriety, all the deviates in Los Angeles caught on and placed ads.”
Kunkin said he drew the line in the interest of good taste when he refused to publish an ad for an electric vibrator shaped “unmistakably like a penis.”
But books and films do not fall into the same category.
“I find it difficult to turn down any ad relating to a book or film. These ads go along with the purpose of the Free Press, while vibrators do not,” he said.
Though some ads are being denied publicity, Kunkin said he would not compromise on editorials.
“I see nothing obscene about nude bodies and wouldn’t hesitate to publish a photograph of police busting a nudist colony even if it showed pubic hair or male organs,” he said.
Kunkin said his decision to refuse some ads has cost him money, as has his fight against censorship. At present, he is involved in a $5,000 law suit defending Lenore Kandel’s “Love Book.”
The editor said he feels elimination of all censorship in the United States would change the social and political orientation of its citizens.
“The liberal’s dream would be for all sides to be presented to all the people, allowing them to then make rational decisions,” he said.
“This is not just a question of censorship of written or film material, but of the subtle censorships applied by parents on their children. The generation gap is now so large that social restraints are beginning to break down.”
Kunkin said, however, that the solution to the need for social change does not lie in increased militancy on the part of radical liberal elements.
“There is now a vast appreciation of the power of negativity, but this should be balanced by constructive practical ideas. Provocation and street theater are good, but these don’t supply reasonable answers,” he said.
Kunkin said he was ready to go to the Democratic convention if something worthwhile had developed, but didn’t because he knew what was going to happen.
“I am pleased at being at the center of where the action is,” he concluded, “but deep in my heart I really know that the New Left movement is very weak, because the instruments of control and power are still in the hands of the establishment.”
VOL LX
University of Southern California
DAILY # TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1968
NO. 3
ART KUNKIN
£iology faculty offers students voice in plans
By ROGER SMITH Assistant city editor Biology majors will meet soon in what will apparently be a significant breakthrough in student-faculty relations.
The majors will meet to decide what to do about department faculty resolution inviting them to help “inaugurate student participation in academic affairs and planning.”
The resolution stated that the participation could include voting representation at faculty meetings and
committees of the department.
Dr. Arnold Dunn, associate professor of biology, said the resolution was adopted at the end of last year. The 200 majors in the department will be notified of a meeting to discuss the resolution after a few weeks, he said.
Dunn said the students had exerted no pressure whatsoever on the faculty for such a resolution.
“The idea came at the Danforth Foundation conferences at Idyllwild,” he said. “We felt there was real validity
TYD will not endorse national candidates
The executive board of the Trojan Young Democrats voted yesterday not to endorse any candidates for national or local office. Instead, seven separate committees will be formed within TYD.
Students for Humphrey will be led by Patty Friend, former TYD corresponding secretary.
At their final meeting tomorrow at noon in Von Kleinsmid Center 100, the Students for Kennedy Committee will be changed to the Kennedy Action Corpos with Keith Keener continuing as chairman. The goals of this group will be to aid the children farm workers, make minority ^Hldren aware of higher education ^^portunities. and make jobs available to all. Keener said.
“There is a crusade that has to be
SQUIRES SET BRIEFINGS
Squires, the sophomores men's service club, will hold a briefing for prospective members at 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Founders Hall 102.
The briefing will cover the membership test to be given on Tuesday. The club is open to sophomores only.
started and there are ideals that have to be worked out,” Joel Rosenzweig, TYD president and a former Kennedy campaigner, said.
Youth for McCarthy continues under Steve Beidner, TYD treasurer. The group will collect signatures to place McCarthy’s name on the California ballot until Sept. 20. They will then conduct a although
write-ins on the ballots are not counted.
Beidner will also head students for Alan Cranston, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. The organizational meeting for this committee will be held Friday at noon in Von Kleinsmid Center 100.
In addition, Youth for Congressman George E. Brown, Jr., Youth for Congressman Charles H. Wilson, and Young Citizens for Assemblyman Jesse Unruh committees are being planned.
Dr. Donald A. Reed, former TYD vice president, moved that the executive board endorse Vice President Hubert Humphrey, saying, “Anyone in this country not doing anything to prevent the election of Nixon is insane.”
However, the motion was rejected and Reed was declared out of order.
It was suggested that the TYD set up one table in front of the Student Union with room enough for literature from all the organizations. However, the proposal was turned down.
to some student complaints and ideas, and that the students had the maturity to handle the responsibility.”
Should the students organize and take advantage of the resolution, Dunn said, biology would be the first major department at the university to have active student participation in department planning and activities.
Dean Neil Warren, former dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, was delighted with the resolution last year, Dunn said.
The student participation is only part of a “humanizing” effort brought to the department by its new head, Dr. Bernard C. Abbott.
“I’ll forever be a student,” he said. “It is my belief that the person who makes a commitment like a major should have a stake in the department.”
Dr. Abbott, 47, will also direct the Hancock Foundation. He hopes the resources of the foundation can be used by students as well.
“We have fantastic potential here,” he said.
McCarthy move NEARS FINISH
Campus volunteers who have been circulating petitions to place the name of Eugene McCarthy on the California presidential ballot will end their drive tomorrow.
Friday is the deadline for filing the petitions with election officials around the state.
Clifford Neill, sophomore in philosophy and spokesman for the volunteers, said 180 signatures were collected on campus last week and over 300 on Monday.
The petitions will be taken to McCarthy campaign headquarters for validating and addition of precinct numbers, he said.
Approximately 330,000 valid signatures will be required to place McCarthy's name on the ballot, Neill said.
"Signers of the petition do not in any way affiliate themselves with McCarthy," he said. "The petition is only to place his name on the ballot."
ROBERT P. MYERS, JR.
TEPs reinstated by dean of men
Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, suspended last spring by the Student Behavior Committee for hazing, has been reinstated by Dean of Men Daniel Nowak.
All members of the fraternity at the time of suspension are disaffiliated with the new TEPs under the conditions of the reinstatement, said Pat Ryan, Inter-Fraternity Council advisor.
“After the suspension by the Behavior Committee, members of the fraternity’s alumni were invited to meet with university officials to work out a plan under which the fraternity could be readmitted to good standing,” Ryan said.
“After extensive talks and correspondence during the summer, it was felt the fraternity had submitted an appropriate plan,” he said. “Dean Nowak made the reinstatement in late August in the absence of the Behavior Committee.”
The plan includes many guidelines, Ryan said.
“The most important ones are the complete turnover in membership and the employment of alumni and graduate advisors to live in the house.”
Ed Lewis, a first-year law student and former president of the house, will be the alumni advisor. Lee Albert will be the graduate advisor.
Ryan said that the fraternity is conducting rush and that 12 men have pledged.
“They will be able to pledge throughout the semester,” he said. I
The fraternity was placed on probation last year by the IFC Judicial for hazing. The hazing incidents included noise and obscene language, exhibitionism and other degrading acts in various rooms of the house, witnesses said.
The fraternity appealed the decision to the Student Behavior Committee, which issued the suspension.
HelpVietnamese help themselves, speaker advises
The way to get out of Vietnam is to help the Vietnamese learn to handle thier own problems, including the long standing friction between the Montagnards and the lowland Vietnamese, a foreign service officer said yesterday.
“Pacification doesn’t come out of gun barrels,” Robert P. Myers, Jr., told a Student Awareness Forum in the Student Activities Center.
Myers was responsible for the planning and implementation of a minority program in Vietnam last year. One of his major tasks was the enforcement of a bill of rights granted by the Thieu government to ethnic minorities.
“The Thieu government took a big step when it granted the Montagnards’ land rights and allowed them to use their own nontonal language in primary instruction,” he said.
“After all, they were admitting that their country wasn’t entirely Vietnamese.
“We,re still trying to learn to live up to our Bill of Rights. We shouldn’t expect more of the Vietnamese than we would of ourselves. A double standard won’t work.”
The American attempt to obtain recognition of minority rights is related to an increase of the tensions between the two groups. American Special Forces units previously used Montagnard strikers to hunt out Viet Cong, a source of racial tension that culminated in Montagnard rebellions in 1958,1964, and 1965.
“The government now knows it can’t win the war without the Montagnards,” said Myers, “so it was willing to reverse the oppresionist policies started by the Diem regime.”
“Asia doesn’t understand the time-phase goals beloved of the Harvard Business School,” Myers said. “We have to learn from them as well, but Washington and the military don’t always understand this. You can’t pacify an area without some military security, but military effort does shackle community development. The advisors try to alleviate this.”
Myers believes that one of the main American goals should be the stabilization of the country until the people can develop their own democratic institutions. He feels a regime must be formed that can fight its own corruption and be willing to repatriate members of the V iet Cong.
“As far as the development of our own type of democracy is concerned,” he said, “the Vietnamese are beginning to act like politicans. They make promises to win an election or support and then find that they have to keep them to stay there. I think that’s encouraging.”
Liquor request hearing
A public hearing on the USC Faculty Center liquor license application will be held Sept. 23.
Last April 2, the Faculty Center filed an application for a liquor license at the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department. The application prompted several protests, one of which was submitted by Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn.
The hearing will be held at the Department of Administrative procedures at 9 a.m. Monday and is open to the public.
Social action leader pledges to help minorities
By BILL DICKE City editor
Dr. William Williams leaned back and hooked his leg over the desk chair in the room of the little brown building which is the Center for Social Action.
“The jury is still out on the administration,” he said. “I have received a great deal of support from the administration, I have received a great deal of support from my department and the faculty has voiced a great deal of support.
“The problem is, the administration has appeal to the alumni, the Board of Trustees and other conservative groups for money.”
Dr. Williams, the director of the recently-formed center, was discussing its place in the university.
He is a soft-spoken man with a friendly smile, who looked tall sitting in the small office. His tie was tugged loose and slid around under an open vest.
“We are trying to get things going so that we can speak to the crisis at the
•versity, which has tc do with w’hether or not the university is going to be ■vant to the minority community,” he said.
“We are surrounded by ghetto and have a responsibility.’
He said that the university needs some kind of special organization to show that it is concerned w ith minority problems. The Center for Social Action is that group, he believes.
Its programs include:
Compiling information on university resources and programs relevant to the minority communities.
Developing scholarships and grants for disadvantaged minority students. Providing special guidance and counseling for disadvantaged minority students. Developing special programs relevant to minority communities.
Asked what programs the university had in the community before the center,
Dr. Williams said, “I’m not really sure, but I don’t think it was very much. There were a lot of ad hoc programs, but I don’t think they were as relevant as they should have been.
“If you’re really going to reach out, you’ve got to do it in specific ways. You’ve got to do something about changing the complexion of the campus. You’ve got to do something about getting more black and brown professors. You’ve got to include the community in the campus.”
Dr. Williams is currently trying to get a plan approved for tuition remission for minority students.
A duplicate services program for minority students being planned would set up a different set of criteria for admission, guidance and scholarship grants.
“They (minority students) can’t be treated in the traditional manner,” he said. Is the student body ready to support the center? “No,” he said, “I don’t think the student body is sophisticated enough to do any radical things.
“The student body is concerned with the dorm hours and is still hung up on fraternities and sororities. For the most part it is not committed to the urban crisis.
“I am confident that he is ready to place the urban crisis high on his list of priorities. We’ve had some good talks.
“One of his problems is the student body. He wants to keep its support even though they may not be committed to the same things he is. His problem is to satisfy his constituency.”
The center is sponsored by the School of Public Administration and the university at large. Its staff consists of students who work part-time.
Dr. Williams sat up behind the desk and said with a grin, “This is the start of it, but everything depends upon the president’s approval.”
“Students here don’t feel the sense of urgency that is felt on other campuses, or that is felt especially by minorities.”
He feels that the student body is not ready to do such things as making specific recommendations to the administration in terms of the urban crisis.
He thinks there is intellectual concern, but not an emotional concern on the campus.
Some students, faculty members and administrators are afraid of rapid changes, he said. “There is a great fear of admitting 50 or 60 black students at one time,” he claimed. “They are afraid of admitting droves of them.
“Of course this is just part of the American scene and USC reflects the country’s problems because of where it recruits its students.”
Dr. Williams feels that Bill Mauk, the ASSC president, is ready to implement his concern over the urban crisis.